Avionics Communications Engineer III - Lunar Permanence

Responsibilities

• Develop Communication system design for one or more in-space architectures.
• Allocate and decompose higher level functions and requirements to the Communications Subsystems.
• Support the alignment, documentation, and consistent implementation of Lunar Permanence System engineering practices across applicable projects.
• Support system and lower-level requirements management, including change control, audits, and coordination with other teams.
• Support the development and creation of ConOps.
• Develop, track, and maintain analyses and simulations for Communications Subsystem including: link analysis, signal distortion, system capacity, coverage analysis and performance.
• Develop subsystem verification and validation activity definitions including verification methods, expectations, and compliance criteria.
• Career Development: Mentor early career systems engineers.

Requirements

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in electrical engineering.
• 5+ years of experience in communication systems or RF testing.
• Working knowledge of major RF components used in a communication subsystem (SSPA, LNAs, Transceivers, waveguides, antennas, filters, etc.).
• Strong Communication fundamentals including understanding of digital modulation schemes including various types of QPSK modulation (OQPSK, UQPSK, spread spectrum approaches, etc.), FEC encoding like Reed Solomon and LDCP codes, and the relationship between information rates and RF requirements.
• Experience delivering communications systems for spacecraft applications including experience addressing radiation effects, hardware/software integration, thermal management, etc.
• Experience integrating communication systems into larger systems, including definition of management and data interfaces using protocols like RS-422, Ethernet, SpaceWire, HDLC, etc.
• Experience developing static and dynamic RF simulations (link budgets, coverage analyses, line of site simulation, etc.) with tools like HFSS, STK, MATLAB, and/or Python.
• Ability to work from incomplete specifications to drive to completion.
• Prominent ability to interpret and apply high-level system requirements to practical design solutions for a complex physical assembly.
• In depth knowledge of systems engineering practices (e.g., requirements development; standard verification methods; functional decomposition; standard diagramming techniques; risk and opportunity management).
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of satellite communication systems, and familiarity with all phases of an RF’s product lifecycle from concept, design, manufacture, test, and integration.
• Full-life cycle engineering for a communication system from clean-sheet architecture definition through to operations planning and support.
• Experience writing RF test procedures and performing subsystem level functional tests.

Base Pay Range

For WA applicants is $130,706.00 - $182,987.70

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